Consortium Organization and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC) for the Human Virome Program (HVP) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Background
The Human Virome Program (HVP) is a Common Fund initiative developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the goal of extensively characterizing the human virome and creating tools, models, and methods to study its variation and its influence on health and disease. The Consortium Organization and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC) will serve as an organizational and cooperation hub for the HVP Consortium, collecting, storing, curating, and disseminating all data, metadata, analysis and visualization tools, computational models, and aggregate data across the Consortium into a searchable HVP Data Portal.

Grant Details
The CODCC will oversee HVP Consortium administration and collaboration, protocol and data standardization, data analysis, integration, and visualization for the broader scientific community to further the HVP goal of characterizing the human virome. It will be responsible for creating and maintaining an HVP Data Portal with compelling visualizations and search capabilities that catalogs the tools, technologies, and methods developed by the Consortium. The CODCC will also coordinate outreach activities, engage foundations, societies, national and international entities with a shared interest in the human virome.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status or without 501(c)(3) IRS status, for-profit organizations including small businesses, local governments, state governments, federal government agencies or U.S. territories or possessions. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply directly but foreign components of U.S. Organizations are allowed.

Period of Performance
The project period is a maximum of 5 years.

Grant Value
The NIH Common Fund intends to commit approximately $3M in FY2024 for one CODCC award. Application budgets are not expected to exceed $1.875M in direct costs for each year.

Place of Performance
No specific geographic location(s) for performance is provided.